Hospital Bed Allocation Across 31 Chinese Provinces in 2022

Ke Hu's dataset provides spatial evidence on hospital bed distribution across 31 Chinese provinces in 2022. It includes variables for economic development, population structure, environmental conditions, education, existing healthcare resources, and transportation infrastructure. The data underpins an analysis of regional disparities and the multidimensional determinants of resource allocation.

Use Cases

• Modeling spatial autocorrelation of healthcare resources based on the described clustering patterns.
• Analyzing the relationship between GDP per capita and bed availability based on the described threshold effect.
• Investigating interaction effects between factors like disposable income and sex ratio on resource distribution.
• Mapping high-high and low-low clusters of hospital bed density across provinces.

Strengths

• Data covers 31 provinces in China for the year 2022, providing a national snapshot.
• Analysis framework described includes six distinct dimensions of determinants (economic, population, environmental, etc.).
• Dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The file size is 18.3 KB, indicating a very limited data scope.

Provenance

Source

Author Ke Hu, published on figshare.

Collection Method

Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, spatial autocorrelation, multiple linear regression, spatial error models, and the Geodetector method.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 05:42:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

31 provinces in China